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Tamil News Network (TNN) leading online news portal which covers Sri Lankan Tamil, Eelam, and sports news.Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:45:38 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2Resettling Tamils silently expelled from Champoor in Trincomaleehttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/resettling-tamils-silently-expelled-from-champoor-in-trincomalee/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/resettling-tamils-silently-expelled-from-champoor-in-trincomalee/#commentsMon, 26 Jan 2015 15:28:17 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32826Following the election of Maithiripala Sirisena as new Sri Lankan President, the uprooted families from a section of the 5th Division and 7th Division of Champoor situated along both the sides of Champoor main road, started to clear their lands for resettlement. Their lands, seized by Colombo under the so-called ‘Special Economic Zone’ (SEZ) were to be handed over to a Chinese-owned corporate. The occupying Sri Lanka Navy was blocking the uprooted Tamils from resettling in their lands. Despite the [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/resettling-tamils-silently-expelled-from-champoor-in-trincomalee/feed/0Investigating ‘root cause’ of injustice to Eezham Tamilshttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/investigating-root-cause-of-injustice-to-eezham-tamils/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/investigating-root-cause-of-injustice-to-eezham-tamils/#commentsMon, 26 Jan 2015 15:13:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32823The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG) in the UK and the British Tamil Forum (BTF), jointly host an annual dinner on 29th January, this time with the theme “Tamil People’s Right to Democracy and Justice in Sri Lanka.” The highlights of the dinner hosts’ requests to British government are: Justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity (including the ‘intent of genocide’); Political solution to address the root cause to the conflict and that the UK government [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/investigating-root-cause-of-injustice-to-eezham-tamils/feed/0SL military assaults family man after playground dispute in Jaffnahttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/sl-military-assaults-family-man-after-playground-dispute-in-jaffna/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/sl-military-assaults-family-man-after-playground-dispute-in-jaffna/#commentsMon, 26 Jan 2015 12:45:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32829The occupying Sinhala soldiers at Ellaang-ku’lam camp in Uduppiddi in Vadamaraadchi brutally assaulted a 29-year-old father of three from the same village Saturday evening around 5:15 p.m. The victim, Selvaratnam Jegan, was admitted to the Valveddiththu’rai (VVT) Hospital with serious injuries. The SL military on Sunday threatened the family not to reveal the news to media and exerted pressure on the hospital administration to send the injured patient home, news sources in VVT told TamilNet. The SL military camp at [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/26/sl-military-assaults-family-man-after-playground-dispute-in-jaffna/feed/0Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken for ride from Oslo to Singaporehttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/singapore-principles-of-2013-tamil-polity-taken-for-ride-from-oslo-to-singapore/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/singapore-principles-of-2013-tamil-polity-taken-for-ride-from-oslo-to-singapore/#commentsFri, 23 Jan 2015 12:38:10 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32821Right from the Indo-Lanka agreement of 1987 to Oslo Declaration of 2002 and to hitherto unrevealed Singapore Principles of 2013 that brought the Sampanthan polity into a conceptual framework for the recent regime change in Colombo, the external forces seeking to influence the affairs of the island have taken the Eezham Tamils for a ride to confine the Tamil polity into the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka without securing any concrete and descriptive guarantee from the Sinhala polity. By [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/singapore-principles-of-2013-tamil-polity-taken-for-ride-from-oslo-to-singapore/feed/0Protests erupt in Jaffna against continued militarisation, unemploymenthttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/protests-erupt-in-jaffna-against-continued-militarisation-unemployment/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/protests-erupt-in-jaffna-against-continued-militarisation-unemployment/#commentsFri, 23 Jan 2015 12:36:54 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32819The owners of five houses and lands that have been illegally seized by the Sri Lankan military for more than two decades at Koozhaavadi, situated on Maanippaay Road at Aanaik-koaddai in Jaffna protested on Wednesday against the attempt by Colombo to transform their lands into State property with the motive of permanently sustaining a war-time military camp, which was notorious for extra-judicial interrogations, abductions and disappearances since 1996. At the same time, unemployed graduates staged a protest in front of [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/23/protests-erupt-in-jaffna-against-continued-militarisation-unemployment/feed/0SL military in Batticaloa continues to exploit families returned from Vannihttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/21/sl-military-in-batticaloa-continues-to-exploit-families-returned-from-vanni/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/21/sl-military-in-batticaloa-continues-to-exploit-families-returned-from-vanni/#commentsWed, 21 Jan 2015 12:29:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32815The Sri Lankan State and its military intelligence in Batticaloa district continue to harass 1,080 families that survived the genocidal onslaught in Vanni in 2009. The families from Batticaloa returned to their native villages situated in 10 of the 14 Divisional Secretariat divisions in the district. The DS Secretaries in these divisions have also been instructed to refuse assistance to these families by the genocidal military. There is no change in the harassments on the ground despite the ‘changes’ taking [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/21/sl-military-in-batticaloa-continues-to-exploit-families-returned-from-vanni/feed/0UNP Batticaloa branch wants anti-people elements isolated from politicshttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/20/unp-batticaloa-branch-wants-anti-people-elements-isolated-from-politics/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/20/unp-batticaloa-branch-wants-anti-people-elements-isolated-from-politics/#commentsTue, 20 Jan 2015 12:27:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32813The District Organiser of the United National Party (UNP) in Batticaloa Mr Arasaretnam Sasitharan said that a resolution has been passed at the UNP Batticaloa District Executive Committee to the effect that anti-people elements and former paramilitary operatives, who were deployed under the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, should not be absorbed into the UNP or the polity associated with the UNP in the new regime in Colombo. The resolution has named four persons who should be kept away from the politics [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/20/unp-batticaloa-branch-wants-anti-people-elements-isolated-from-politics/feed/0Sinhala prisoners threaten Tamil inmates in Anuradhapura prisonhttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/19/sinhala-prisoners-threaten-tamil-inmates-in-anuradhapura-prison/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/19/sinhala-prisoners-threaten-tamil-inmates-in-anuradhapura-prison/#commentsMon, 19 Jan 2015 12:25:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32811Nine political Tamil prisoners jailed in Anuradhapura prison complain harassments by criminal prisoners from South after they have been transferred since Saturday to cells where murder convicts stay, said Northern Provincial Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan citing a mother of one of the prisoners. The Tamil prisoners have alleged racial discrimination by an assistant jailor known as Upuldeniya and a Superintend of Police, Chandraratne, according to the families of the 9 prisoners in Anuradhapura prison.

]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/19/sinhala-prisoners-threaten-tamil-inmates-in-anuradhapura-prison/feed/0Sampanthan polity interdicts Ananthy Sasitharan from ITAKhttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/18/sampanthan-polity-interdicts-ananthy-sasitharan-from-itak/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/18/sampanthan-polity-interdicts-ananthy-sasitharan-from-itak/#commentsSun, 18 Jan 2015 12:22:00 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32809The Jaffna District General Secretary of Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi (ITAK) K. Thurairasasingam has sent a registered letter to Ms Ananthy Sasitharan, the popularly elected provincial councillor in the North, stating that she had been interdicted from the ITAK for having acted against the decision of the ITAK to support Maithiripala Sirisena in the Sri Lankan Presidential Election, informed TNA sources in Jaffna said. Ms Sasitharan has ‘violated’ the party discipline by issuing statements, conducting a press conference and by [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/18/sampanthan-polity-interdicts-ananthy-sasitharan-from-itak/feed/0Extra-government authority to supersede government in Colombohttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/16/extra-government-authority-to-supersede-government-in-colombo/
http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/16/extra-government-authority-to-supersede-government-in-colombo/#commentsFri, 16 Jan 2015 15:12:10 +0000TamilNethttp://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/?p=32807Tamil ‘National’ Alliance Parliamentary Group Leader R. Sampanthan and genocidal Sri Lanka’s former military commander Sarath Fonseka, who led the onslaught during the war, being together in a superseding extra-government authority constituted in Colombo would mean nullifying genocide investigation and even war crime investigation, as well as endorsing the unitary Sri Lankan State of US-Indian interests, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island, responding to SL president Maithiripala Sirisena, constituting a 11-member ‘National Executive Council’ that would be [...]]]>http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2015/01/16/extra-government-authority-to-supersede-government-in-colombo/feed/0